ALFRED by schooner - FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1:96 - Continental Navy Frigate

[MrBlueJacket]

Looking very good!

 

Nic

[schooner]

Rigging around the Bowsprit

 

 

The Spiritsail yard has been rigged with blocks for the lifts and the halyard, eyebolts for the guys and a brass rod to secure it to the underside of the bowsprit:

 

 

The following photos show the standing and running rigging that has been attached:

 

 

 

 

 

This is as far as I can go in this area without rigging the jib boom. The boom is very fragile and I know that if I rig it now I will end up snapping it off as I turn the hull back and forth while doing the mast rigging so I will hold off adding the boom until all the other rigging is done.

 

Next I’ll start with adding the deadeyes for the lower shrouds on the Foremast.

[schooner]

The lines that come down the foremast and are belayed around the mast base are in place. Both the Truss pendants and the Jeers terminate in tackles made up of 2 double blocks (there are 2 more sets on the far side of the mast). The Nave line is just belayed to a pin rack:

 

 

The upper deadeyes have been added to the shrouds and backstays:

 

 

Rigging the anchors was made a little easier by the rigging hooks available from the syrenshipmodelcompany.com I used them on the bottom of the rigging tackles shown in the first photo and they should come in very handy for rigging the futtock shrouds under the tops:

 

 

And here is the anchor in place:

 

 

I have to make up some rope coils (one of the most tedious tasks for me) and then it will be time to step the main mast.

[schooner]

Main mast in place

 

 

The main mast has been stepped and the forestays are in place:

 

 

The deadeyes have been attached to the shrouds and backstays and the main yard jeers and truss pendants have been rigged to their tackles around the base of the mast:

 

 

Next up will be stepping the Mizzen.

[schooner]

Mizzen Rigging

 

With the mast stepped the following are done:

 

• Gaff Throat & Peak Halliard and Vangs
• Cross jack Truss Pendant and Lifts
• Topsail Tye and Lifts
• Topgallant Halliard
• Lower shrouds and backstays
• Futtock shrouds and staves
• Rope coils
• Forestays
• the "railing" on the top

 

 

 

The only rigging left for the Mizzen are the yard braces and the ratlines on the shrouds.

Edited September 13, 2024 by schooner

[schooner]

Just about done with the rigging

 

All the rigging directly associated with the masts (halyards, lifts, jeers, shrouds, stays, etc) has been added along with a couple of the yard braces.

 

The only things left to rig at this point are the rest of the yard braces, the jib boom and its’ rigging and the ratlines on the lower shrouds.

 

The end is in sight.

 

 

 

 

[ccoyle]

That is coming along very nicely!

[MrBlueJacket]

Dayum that's good looking!

 

Nic

[schooner]

Almost done….

 

The rigging is finally done.

 

Now all that is left to do is fixing any cannon barrels that got pushed off their carriages, adding the gunport lids, the quarterdeck railing cloths, adding the boat to the transom davits and mounting the model on the display case base when it gets here from BlueJacket.

Edited December 11, 2024 by schooner

[schooner]

Finally finished

 

The display case base arrived from BlueJacket so it’s time to take some final photos and put this one to bed. It has been a challenging but enjoyable build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:38 PM by schooner

[ccoyle]

2 hours ago, schooner said:

it’s time to take some final photos and put this one to bed

 

Congratulations!

 

I noticed that you didn't include your name and date on the nameplate. You know we get a lot of inquiries here about mystery models with no provenance -- you should include that information somewhere, perhaps on the bottom of the stand?

[JacquesCousteau]

Nice job!

[davec]

Beautiful work - congratulations on finishing!

[mort stoll]

Well done sailor, very well done.

[MrBlueJacket]

Congratulations!

 

Your customer file now shows a 10% discount on the next kit you buy from us.

 

Nic